As promised, I've included a photo I took of the children's park near my house. My goal was to try and capture the park in the view of the eyes of a child. Whenever I go to it with my daughter, I've been guilty of looking at it as a parent. Yet one more place I have to waste time sitting around when I could be doing more important things, like cleaning house, doing chores, or quality time on the computer. It takes a moment like this to get a different perspective. I caught myself crawling on my hands and knees, crouching under the structures, and attempting a cross on the monkey bars. I went down the slide and swung on the swings a bit just to try and get in the mindset of someone having the time of their life. It was fun, although I was by myself. I felt a bit more comfortable that way, since seeing an adult man these days having fun by himself in a kid's park might seem unusual and creepy.
I digress, though, as I liked the way the entrance is modeled after a castle's. It can be a bit foreboding as itself, but when you look through the doorway, there is nothing but fun inside. One of the four triangular spires announce the true intent of the play area and the freshly mulched ground invites the child to fall as many times as they want without so much as a scratch. This experience was pretty neat as I stepped out of my shoes as a 37-year old and looked back at the times I spent swinging, see-sawing, or balance bar walking when I was a young tyke too.
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